Monitoring recent trends in the area of aeolian desertified land using Landsat images in China's Xinjiang region

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 184-190

  Wang, T ^a   Yan, C Z ^a   Song, X ^a   Xie, J L ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Desertification; Remote sensing; Trend analysis; Xinjiang

Indexed keywords

ARID CLIMATES; CLIMATIC VARIATION; DESERTIFICATION; DRIVING FORCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGES; RECENT TRENDS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; RESTORATION PROCESS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; XINJIANG; XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

RESTORATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; DESERTIFICATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84862807602     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.01.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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